David Southern is a barrister at Temple Tax Chambers, 3 Temple Gardens.

His principal specialisation is in corporate finance. He is currently engaged in wide-ranging litigation concerning the time-limits for claiming repayment of overpaid output VAT and under-recovered input VAT, following his Court of Appeal success in Fleming (T/a Bodycraft) v C & E Comrs [2008] STC  The Revenue and Customs Commissioners took this case on appeal to the House of Lords.

His legal experience covers

• all forms of tax litigation
• corporate finance
• reconstructions
• property transactions
• VAT and excise duties
• banking, finance and insurance
• capital taxes,
• stamp duty land tax and stamp duties

David can take instructions from solicitors, accountants, tax advisers as well as foreign lawyers and accountants.